Research Interests

The interactions between past human societies and the environment are my prime research interest. I focus on two main aspects: firstly, the contact mechanisms between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers in coastal regions, and its impact on societal changes, along with changes in coastal ecosystems exploited by these populations. Secondly, as a geoarchaeologist passionate about (micro)stratigraphy and the human evolutionary and paleoenvironmental stories that we can read from it, I specialize in the study of microscopic and molecular scales of the dirt from archaeological sites, through microstratigraphic and sedimentary ancient lipid biomarkers analysis.